Venetian glass

Ray Lewis once said, "No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it." In society, people sometimes give up when faced with tough times. When people use their determination and courage, they could do more. In Catherine, Called Birdy, Catherine uses her determination and courage to make the best of her marriage, her lady tasks, and her life. First, Catherine cannot escape marriage. She thinks about her own marriage and used to dream of a nice marriage, but instead…

and the city’s surrounding. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls is an autobiographical journal about her life and her family. The book features her family and her relationship with every single one of her family members. She is especially close to her highly intelligent father with a passion for logic and alcohol, Rex Walls. The parents of Walls are regularly move from city to city because of the lack of security in parenthood and their failure to keep their…

Staging a play: The Glass Menagerie is Matija Ferlin’s abstract dance theatre performance based on Tennessee Williams’ brilliant play The Glass Menagerie. It was first staged late last year and has since received many positive reviews. Englist’s team was very fortunate to be able to attend the show for a very affordable price and even arrange a small discussion after the play with Matija Ferlin, the director, main choreographer, and dancer, Maja Delak, a dancer, and Luka Prinčič, the coordinator…

You learn many things through reading the Glass Castle. I feel one of the first tones you pick up on would be the closeness between Jeannette and her father. Jeanette has this faith and happiness she gets from Rex that no one else in her family understands. Sadley, this becomes one of the many big problems she faces in her life. There are many times throughout Jeanette’s life you could start this out with. For example, Rex ruined Christmas. He got so drunk that he burned down the christmas…

The glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a play that tells part of a man’s life named Tom Wingfield it takes place in St. Louis. Tom works at a shoe warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and older sister, Laura. Tom and Laura’s father left years ago and he is only slightly mentioned in the play. Tom is the man of the house since his father left he is the only one with a job and the family one hundred percent relies on him for the income and to pay any bill. He wants to leave and go travel…

Tom vs. Jim In the book The Glass Menagerie, characters were faced with many dilemmas, how they chose to proceed with them was questionable but they chose to get through them. The two characters that really caught my attention were Jim and Tom. Both characters are very similar in the way they act but still portrayed as different individuals. Tom is hard working guy with dreams of going to school and accomplishing great things. But because Tom had to work to support his family he was unable to…

“The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams is a play with references to his own life concerning his sister and mother. During the play there are many reoccurring symbols, each symbol is crucial to the play in order to understand the idea of escape. Through the narrator's perspective, we are able to witness the mainstream family during a war depression era. We see a single mother, unable to accept change and retaining to the past; a sister, who has trouble dealing with reality and lives in a…

Alice is trying to conform to Victorian societal norms and expectations. Although she is only seven, she blames herself when she doesn’t have an explanation for a problem when in reality she shouldn’t expect herself (nor should anyone else) expect her to know about of what is going on in Wonderland. Alice has developed neurosis and she is consistently punishes herself for behaving in an undesirable manner and continue to accept the societal norms as her own expectations of herself. Alice has to…

Lewis Carroll was an English logician, mathematician, an ordained minister, a photographer and a writer best known for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He was born on January 27, 1832, with the birth name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Many people don’t know that the Alice stories were based on a real girl, Alice Liddell. Carroll first met Liddell on a boat trip. She asked him to tell her a story and he did. It was such a good story he wrote it down for her and from there the Adventures in…

In one of Lewis Carroll’s books “Alice in Wonderland” a character in his book says,“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. This quote means each time you make a choice you are going down a path and it’s your choice on which path you want to take. You decide how much you want to grow from now. This quote relates to the novel “outsiders” because the people in outsiders made their own choices, they decided…